Social Impact Assessment

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1 Social Impact Assessment for NGOs Mr Anthony Wong and Dr C.K.Law 19 April 2013 Intervention Strategies Inciting Discussion: Introduction to different approaches/models, and experiences through Workshops and Conference Creating Tools: Development of framework, guidelines and protocols Pooling Resources: Development of resource website, mapping of tools on the framework developed Making Resources/Tools Accessible: Training 1

2 Inciting Discussion and Exchange Regional Dialogue on Experiences of SIA (28 Nov 2012) Speakers from Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong sharing their experiences in SIA In Asia, many stakeholders including NGOs, SEs, Impact Investors were greatly concerned with articulating impacts. But in terms of knowledge and experiences, many are actually at a very beginning stage. Room for development of SIA, not just in Hong Kong or for HK projects but those in the Mainland and Asia. 2

3 Workshop on Social Return on Investment, SROI (25 Feb 2013) Follow up Meeting on Workshop on SROI (22 March 2013) 4 local programme ideas were shared and participants deliberated how SROI would be possibly conducted. With concrete examples, the discussion was very productive. Interest was significantly enhanced. Further followup activities were sounded out. 3

4 Reflection SIA For impacts to be adequately articulated, many longitudinal/background data would be required. E.g. territorywide longitudinal survey on QoL Value debate on SIA (accounting for value in $ or not) NGO Capacity NGOs and SEs expressed strong interest and needs on SIA for their programme, but their capacity in terms of skills, knowledge and experiences remains to be developed. Practice based. Concrete examples where they could get those abstract concepts and models. Flexibility to accommodate contextual constraints of NGOs but SIA can become a mainstream thought and embedded operational practice Creating Tools 4

5 Evolving Edition: Primary Tier of Assessment Impact dimension Individual Social Assessment objective To assess how a social intervention could cause changes to the directly involved individuals. To assess how a social intervention could cause changes on interpersonal level, and individual s interaction with the society that could cause immediate effect on their living. Impact indicator Quality of life Self esteem Information acquisition Skills and knowledge development Health and physical change Social capital Social network Social integration Community participation Financial integration Volunteerism Economical To assess how a social intervention could cause changes on resources and revenue usage on public expenditure. Financial sustainability Financial adjustment on the service Community resources allocation Evolving Edition: Secondary Tier of Assessment Impact dimension Organisational Assessment Objective To assess the effectiveness of the intervention in terms of intervention design and execution; and the subsequent changes that may cause to the executing entity as a whole. Impact indicator Mode of service delivery Effectiveness Programme restructuring Stakeholders involvement Service continuity Service expansion Organisational development Organisation restructuring Inter organisational collaboration Cross organisation collaboration Community To assess whether an intervention could induce changes on community composition and on policy level. Community development Demographic change Public participation in community affairs Policy change Subsequent policy change Other policy area adjustment 5

6 Pooling of Resources SIA Website Website published: sia.hkcss.org.hk Resources: Framework Protocol Measurement tools Case reports Networks Videos 6

7 Making Resources Accessible Case Training Workshop Theme based Case Workshop on Social Impact Assessment Using Social Impact Assessment report as illustration Sharing, collective deliberation. Not just knowledge transmission, but engagement 7

8 Coming Activities ExCEL3 Deliverables: 2 nd Edition of Framework Conference on SIA Practitioners Workshop on SROI. Gathering tools and materials for SIA for the development of a resource website. Others Ongoing assessment of service projects or programmes, experiences can be used to verify the SIA Framework Thematic Case Workshops Social Impact Assessment for Non-governmental Organisations Social Impact Assessment 8